Exactly, appropriating means to take and pretend you invented it or created it. Interacting with culture or enjoying other people's culture isn't harmful and if these people actually went to other countries they'd realize their people WANT to share their culture.
c0mbatbag3l
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No one falls on a sword for people who didn't ask like left leaning white women in first world countries.
Exactly, people don't seem to understand that our intelligence/problem solving ability is based on two major factors.
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Our evolutionary lineage, pattern recognition and instinct, etc.
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Our nurtured upbringing which creates the "training data" we need to accomplish specific tasks. Even if that upbringing isn't holistic it would still require a significant amount of training to do anything programming-wise that the "three minutes and a coffee" side of the panel is completely ignoring.
Without these a human is useless, we have training data as well, it's just organic and learned over a lifetime in addition to the billions of years of life evolving on this planet.
It seemed sensible when the economist Henry George postulated it as the solution for wealth inequality and the seeming rise of material desire that the uber-rich cause in the market. Unfortunately no one listened and the landlords won, and now we're here.
It's exactly what you described.
Essentially people will hold onto property in order to make more money on it through land value inflation.
If we tax the crap out of property that isn't being used, then either the tenant will do something with it or sell it to someone who will, instead of just waiting for the market to double their money while they play golf.
I wonder if it has anything to do with needing to be a millionaire to support a family and the earning potential being locked away under skyrocketing costs of education.
When people have no hope for a future and start realizing that their ability to succeed is being placed behind wealth tests, they give up. When an entire generation gives up you see it in the population decline. Most people don't want to start a family knowing they can't afford it, so they just refuse to. They'd rather just sit around and do as little as possible since doing as much as possible will not reward them.
This situation has been in the making since at least the 1970-80's but people have been preaching about self correcting markets and nonsense like trickle down economics to cover for the inevitable collapse due to an entire generation+ realizing they're totally fucked with no hope of it getting better outside of a full political overhaul that won't happen.
Land.
Value.
Tax.
Except for the part where you have to rip out everything and build it virtually from scratch due to the severe lack of plumbing infrastructure to individual spaces in the same way that apartments require.
It sounds great, but realistically it's almost easier to just demo the buildings and begin from the foundation.
Either way the issue isn't the ability to construct apartments and/or condos, it's the land being owned by people who either want it for a commercial use-case or it's just being held for value increase.
Profit from calls: $42069
Fine from calls: $2000
Gee, I wonder why people still break the law?!
Sounds like narcissistic tendencies, when you stop feeding them they come back.
Had an ex like this too, the moment I called her bluff and said I was going to grab boxes to move out she changed her tune since the power dynamic shifted. Then she wrapped the conversation around how we should try again and it wasn't that big of a deal what I'd done, etc.
Most of them just don't want to admit anything they've ever said was wrong so the perspective changes and gaslighting starts to creep in.
As if I don't know about it already.
If you ever go into the desktop to do anything at all I'd say you're getting the Arch Linux experience.